Parks Blog

Tag: heritage

  • Travel back in time to the Bon Echo Inn

    Today’s post comes from Lisa Roach, chief park naturalist at Bon Echo Provincial Park. Did you know some of your favourite provincial parks like Bon Echo, Sandbanks, Presqu’ile, and Algonquin have hosted the summer vacations of nature-lovers since the turn of the century? By the end of the 1800s, pioneer society was changing. Increased prosperity…

  • Explore Ontario’s history on the North of Algonquin Route

    Planning a cross-province adventure? Check out the Ontario Parks Driving Routes. This route will take you to a few of the hidden gems of the Ontario Parks system. You’ll stop in parks containing some of the richest history that Ontario has to offer.

  • Forever protected: why MacGregor Point belongs

    Our “Forever Protected” series shares why each and every park belongs in Ontario Parks. In today’s post, Kathleen Houlahan Chayer tells us MacGregor Point’s story.  I worked as the Discovery Leader at MacGregor Point Provincial Park for four years, but it wasn’t really until I started working at Pinery (another park that I’m glad is…

This site is registered on wpml.org as a development site. Switch to a production site key to remove this banner.